On 31/08/2010 8:55 AM, Jefferis Peterson wrote:
On 8/31/10 7:21 AM, "MB" wrote:
Well. I have looked at this problem very carefully. This set of problems
have been there server after server (including my own), account after
account, PM version after version and fresh database or not since 2004
at least. You have no idea what's behind this kind of problem.
If PM is not to blame, then why would another email application not
display this problem with the same account and the same data on the same
server? At least after some time as with PM, the same set problem would
be likely to reappear.
I have had this problem intermittently with Entourage, so I suspect it is a
server hiccup.
Jeff
POP server / client conversations do indeed have an issue with dropped
or aborted connections. The worst offender that I have seen, either
professionally or personally, is MS Outlook. Hundreds of duplicate
emails flooding my clients' inbox, thereby making it impossible to work.
The second worst has been Eudora. Now Eudora has only recently been
revived and on a spotty basis at that. So the data I have date back to
versions 4, 5, 6 (Mac and PC) and 7 (PC only). For some reason, I don't
recall version 3.x suffering from this issue. Perhaps the volume of
email was small enough back then to have less of an effect?
In third place is PowerMail. I have had to clear quite a few duplicates
over the years but all in very clearly defined bunches.
The best I've seen so far has been Thunderbird but I haven't tested it
at home yet. It is at home where I have experienced the problem the most.
I have not yet played with Apple Mail enough yet to get a sense of its
abilities to handle such things but I can't imagine it would be any
different from the rest of the better ones.
Why any one POP client would fare worse than another is the real
mystery. The code for a POP connection at either end of the
conversation should be well understood by now.
